To me it always seemed like Linus Torvalds is mostly a pragmatist.

Richard M Stallman on the other hand…

Both could be good if they were more strictly organized into communities or servers and the “all” feeds would lose importance… but unfortunately we are all just a bunch of shitposters and not the intellectuals we pretend to be

For context, do you use Linux or have you contributed to open source?

I don’t get your point at all. I know that you do not say that, but you don’t even have any counter argument.

I don’t get what you try to say with your last paragraph. It sounds like you are worried that the poor 97% of Windows and Mac users are losing something because Linux is rising. Which makes absolutely no sense.

I believe many open source projects that are used by large corporations find a way to make money with that, at least by offering support or consulting or with sponsorships.

There are volunteer projects of which the developer doesn’t profit of but are used by corporations but I doubt they are the “largest” transfer as written in the post.

Not just kids

Doesn’t enforcement work by letting competitors sue you if you don’t follow the rules for these things?

If there is any company that can do personalized ads for music then it is Spotify. It’s what they are best at, why would they skip that opportunity?

Most ads are terrible because they are annoying and advertise bad products. I think that’s less likely to be a problem here because your music is the ad, if it is annoying and bad you will simply stop listening and they lose money on the ad.

If it would be ads for podcasts for example, it would be much much worse for me.

It seems relatively harmless as long as they don’t overdo it though. The only incentive for someone to pay for this is that that you might like their music and will listen to it more in the future, which would be a win for you as well.

Maybe it also allows smaller artists to gain momentum without only depending on the magic recommendation algorithm.

To the chinese greeting “Have you eaten yet?” as I understood it is fine to just answer factually what you have eaten, it could even be a decent start for small talk. Much better than “How are you?”.